It is not hardware, again my only real memory of exact occurrence is going back through the mails before the summer. Back in June on ubuntu 11.04 it stopped when I went to 5.3.3. Then you (wookey) built 5.3.7 for debian, so I moved to debian, but with no luck. I was on the noveau driver then. 5.3.8 appeared quickly afterwards, but this did not help and I ran out of time to move from noveau driver. Well now I have had the time to install the NVIDIA drivers, but has not helped. And I am reasonably sure that aven did not work either, and it was the upgrade to 1.2 that sorted that, but I would not bet my life on it. thanks Andrew On 10/11/11 18:08, Wookey wrote:
+++ Andrew Atkinson [2011-10-20 16:55 +0100]:
Hello all
I started on this problem before the summer, but then I went away for a few weeks. But I am working on surveys again so I could really do with loch. (One plus from before the summer is that aven is upgraded to 1.2.2 and that now works again, so I am not completely blind)
So trying to open a lox or 3d file in loch just gives a blank screen (grey to go with the border) Runing it from terminal does the same with no errors.
Is this new hardware or an OS upgrade? You used to have loch working, right? In which case do older loch versions work?
There used to be a patch in the Debian version of loch to allow it to work with some intel graphics cards, but I took that out in the 5.3.6 upload IIRC, as it had stopped breaking on my machine, due to vtk or xorg driver fixes (I presume). (I'd have to check to be sure exactly which version). It seems unlikely that this has anything to do with your nvidia problem.
Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 x86_64 wxWidgets 2.8.10 (GTK+>= 2.6) Display Depth: 24 bpp (colour) OpenGL 2.1.2 NVIDIA 275.28 NVIDIA Corporation
Does it help at all if you use the noveau driver rather than the nvidia one?
(apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau)
Wookey